Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. User’s Manual for 1970 Census Fourth Count (Population): School District Data Tape . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004-05-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03525.v1

Summary

The 1970 Census School District Data Tape (SDDT) User's
Guide was designed to complement the 1970 Census User's Guide prepared
by the United States Census Bureau. The School District Data Tape
(SDDT) created by the National Center for Education Statistics is a
recompilation of the 1970 Census Fourth Count Population data,
providing data tables for each school district in the country with 300
or more students. The preparation of the School District Data Tape
required three major steps: (1) overlaying school district boundaries
on census maps, (2) creating a geo-reference tape indicating the
percent of each census area falling within each school district, and
(3) merging the geo-reference tape with the 1970 Census Fourth Count
Population Files A (Traced Areas) and B (Minor Civil Divisions). Some
of the major uses of the School District Data Tape include: allocation
of federal funds, desegregation planning, bilingual and minority
special education planning, preschool and child care planning,
facility planning, redistricting, urban-suburban-rural analyses,
mobility analysis, social and economic inequality among school
districts, and school children profiles. In addition to these uses,
most state education agencies will find data by school district of
value in allocating federal and state aid to school districts and in
the evaluation of the inequality of property taxes as a basis for
financing elementary and secondary education. The School District Data
Tape matches, as closely as possible, the format of the Fourth Count
(Population) Summary tapes supplied by the Census Bureau.

Citation

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. User’s Manual for 1970 Census Fourth Count (Population): School District Data Tape . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004-05-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03525.v1

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1970

Date of Collection

1970

Data Collection Notes

The codebook and data collection instrument are
provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format
was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using
PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on
how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR
Web site.